Mark Steyn: Here comes General Clark, his policies will follow shortly

The Sunday Telegraph (U.K.) ^ | 09/21/03 | Mark Steyn

[judywillow]

Those photos are heartbreaking!

If they actually run this stupid SOB for president, then America has to see this stuff.

Those are the faces of normal children whom most Americans would strongly relate to. Pictures of Albanian kids don't look like that and there's a real reason. The children in those pictures all belong to families with two or three children, like American or Russian families. Those kids were being raised to serve useful purposes and lead bright, useful lives.

On the other hand, as is the case with Albanians, when families AVERAGE ten or twelve kids, particularly in some tight little corner of the world in which land is always some sort of a zero-sum game, those kids are not being raised for anything useful; they're being raised as cannon-fodder and as an instrument of conquest and domination.

From what I can gather from reading, there were around 25 ethnic groups in the Yugoslav federation, only two or three of which ever had any sort of a problem dealing with Serbs, and those two or three were the ones which sided most strongly with Hitler in WW-II, i.e. Bosnians, Croats, and Albanians. The Albanian thing, again from what I gather reading, is to ensconce themselves in some little cornre of the other guy's country, and then sit there and do their little breeding thing for about 20 years until they amount to some sort of a local majority in the little corner, and then try to break the little corner of the other guy's country off into "GREATER ALBANIA". The people in the surrounding countries call this "rabbit breeding their way to power".

Only someone like Slick Clinton or Wesley Clark would have any sympathy for such people. The whole thing just totally pisses me off.

[cookcounty]

" He is responsible for both the Waco incident in Texas"

I forgat about that---Wac-o Wesley!

[GOPJ]

Yep, he's definitely a democrat:

Here he is on Thursday: "General Wesley K Clark said today that he would have supported the Congressional resolution that authorised the United States to invade Iraq." Here he is on Friday: " 'Let's make one thing real clear, I would never have voted for this war,' Clark said before a speech at the University of Iowa." Got that? Everybody else on the planet knows what his or her position on Iraq is except General Clark.

[JulieRNR21]

It is hard to argue that Iraq was a disaster when, in the crappy little war you, General Clark, presided over, the most powerful military on the planet took 78 days of aerial bombardment to destroy just over a dozen tanks; hard to argue that our boys shouldn't be getting picked off on the ground in Iraq when in your war they stayed up at 15,000 feet, nights only, bombing hospitals, commuter trains, refugee convoys, the Chinese embassy, etc; hard to argue that Iraq wasn't worth it when, by most accounts, there's more ethnic cleansing (Muslims against Christians) going on in "liberated" Kosovo than there was in Slobo's day.

BRAVO Steyn!

Unfortunately, the liberal Dem controlled media will NOT inform Americans of General Jello's 'quagmires'.

BTW what was the 'exit strategy' for Kosovo???

[Timesink]

Unless, of course, there's a third scenario, which, given last week's lamentable performance, makes a strange kind of sense. General Clark is merely an unwitting "stalking horse", designed to weaken both Dean and Bush just enough to enable the Democrats' real white knight to jump in: waiting in the wings, Hillary Rodham Clinton.

The problem with this scenario is that Clark only weakens Dean, not Bush. If Hitlery's pudgy little fingers are in this pie at all, it's because she wants to take out Dean, insure a Democratic loss in 2004 and leave the entire field open in 2008, where she'll be the ONLY frontrunner in either party.

[AdA$tra]

Something I did on another thread:

Maybe it should be the story of an imaginary knight who did a favor for his imaginary king. The favor was to break one of the highest rules of the kingdom. The knight, now a favorite of the king, quickly rose through the ranks of knights to lead great armies. Alas, one day the king grew tired of his knight, and fired him. A couple of years went by. The knight feeling he had been dishonored, reminded the now deposed king of the favor he once did for him. If this favor were known it would be very hard for her highness, the ex-queen, to rise triumphantly to the throne someday. So the ex-king made a deal with his old minion and now the ex-kings court jesters are hard at work helping the knight rise to power because they had to.

[AdA$tra]

speaking of pictures!

[Timesink]

Auuuugh!

[drhogan]

we should have a reporter ask clark if he said it or not. clark will have to call an aide to find out, or he'll both affirm and deny the statement.

[Susannah]

How could Hillary make a run as an anti-war candidate?

"In the four years since the inspectors left, intelligence reports show that Saddam Hussein has worked to rebuild his chemical and biological weapons stock, his missile delivery capability, and his nuclear program. He has also given aid, comfort, and sanctuary to terrorists, including Al Qaeda members, though there is apparently no evidence of his involvement in the terrible events of September 11, 2001. It is clear, however, that if left unchecked, Saddam Hussein will continue to increase his capacity to wage biological and chemical warfare, and will keep trying to develop nuclear weapons. Should he succeed in that endeavor, he could alter the political and security landscape of the Middle East, which as we know all too well affects American security." -- Hillary Clinton, October 10, 2002

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

This is where the Clark run puzzles me. The only real result from Clark jumping in I can see is that it intrudes on Kerry's military "bona fides." Who does that help?

[CyberCowboy777]

It is hard to argue that Iraq was a disaster when, in the crappy little war you, General Clark, presided over, the most powerful military on the planet took 78 days of aerial bombardment to destroy just over a dozen tanks; hard to argue that our boys shouldn't be getting picked off on the ground in Iraq when in your war they stayed up at 15,000 feet, nights only, bombing hospitals, commuter trains, refugee convoys, the Chinese embassy, etc; hard to argue that Iraq wasn't worth it when, by most accounts, there's more ethnic cleansing (Muslims against Christians) going on in "liberated" Kosovo than there was in Slobo's day.

Pound this early and the Wes candidacy will go nowhere and Hitlary gets no bump.

[CyberCowboy777]

[American in Israel]

I do not trust people with pupils of different sizes, it is a clear indication of brain damage.

[Brian Allen]

<< Ross Perot is back, and cuts a dashing figure in his uniform. >>

Ross Perrot was/is only anti-Republican Party/Bush.

Waco Wesley's wrongness is way beyond weasily weiredness.

The son of a Hot-Springs' whorehouse mama's stalking horses' brigade's preferred perfumed princeling and stop-gap dyke fingerer -- he of the Manson-Family stare: Wakko of Waco; Neo-Axis/NATO's KKKommandant of Kossovar, Murderer of Christian Serbs and Protector of Islamofascism's EURO-peon Strongholds -- as does every member of that entire manifestation of evil, hates Our Beloved FRaternal Republic and hates, loathes and detests the very Judeo-Christian/Western] [IE: "Human"] Civilization Our Nation has long Vanguarded and will forever Guard.

And pathetic poor garden-goblin Perrot pales in comparison.

[Brian Allen]

#64?

Thank you.

Blessings -- Brian

[MeekOneGOP]

Yes, it sure is classic Steyn. I just bookmarked it ...

[MeekOneGOP]

Nice pic, thanks !!

It took me a minute to see where ya found that ...

http://www.georgewbushstore.com/cgi-bin/SoftCart.exe/scstore/w_pres.htm?L+scstore+jvco0364+1064149241

I was trying to figure out where the pics was taken. It looks like it might be at
Port Aransas or another Texas Gulf City ...

[GirlNextDoor]

LOL- Ping!

[Utilizer]

Gnip! - LOL!